Rats in the Trees - Softcover

Mowry, Jess

 
9780099166016: Rats in the Trees

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A 13-year-old black runaway arrives in Oakland, California, with his skateboard, and dreams of living by the ocean. What he finds are the Oakland streets - drugs, pervs, garbage, guns, gang warfare, and a youth culture based on skateboards, rap slang and danger. By the author of "Way Past Cool".

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Jess Mowry was born in Mississipi in 1960 and raised in Oakland, California by his father. He has been a drug dealer's bodyguard, made his living from collecting scrap metal. and worked in a centre for street kids. In 1988 he bought a typewriter for eight dollars and began writing. His stories have been published in literary magazines and the collection Rats in the Trees won a PEN/Josephine Miles Award. He has written the novels Children of the Night, Way Past Cool and Six Out Seven.

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ISBN 10:  0998557951 ISBN 13:  9780998557953
Verlag: Anubis, 2017
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